Opening the floodgates: Benign prostatic hyperplasia may represent another disease in the compendium of ailments caused by the global sympathetic bias that emerges with aging

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 392-394

  Yun, Anthony J ^a   Doux, John D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CAFFEINE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTOPSY; BLADDER SPHINCTER; BLADDER WALL; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CARDIOMEGALY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EXERCISE; HEART DISEASE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MITOGENESIS; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN GROWTH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RISK FACTOR; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SMOKING HABIT; SPLENOMEGALY; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TH2 CELL; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; AGING; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TH2 CELLS; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 33744779067     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.12.008     Document Type: Article

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